Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.